Flea Poems and Songs

The flea has appeared in many songs and poems over the years. This could be due to their ability to break the class boundaries and affect Kings and Paupers alike. Fleas were a popular choice to symbolise carnal pleasures in the Renaissance due to reproduction being thought of being an act of "mingling blood".

Music

• The famous singers of songs from Bagpuss, Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner sing a song about a flea or buy their CD at the Bagpuss shop
• A complete Flea Circus Musical from Gary Carpenter!
• Miriam Makeba sings Naughty Little Flea
• Classical compusers Igor Stravinsky's,Beethoven & Mussorgsky (1879) all had ochestrations of "Song of the Flea"
• Bobo Baxter's Flea Circus
• Operatic Vocals from Goethe
• Salome's Flea Circus is a theater piece for clarinet and piano. It does indeed involve a fictional flea circus. Salome, now older, is touring with a group of performing fleas. However, they all escape. She is forced to do her dance of the seven veils again. But, the fleas come back and catastrophic things happen. Performed by the Pocket Opera Company
• Thanks to fractals and midi software we have Tim Doyle's musical journey into the world of the flea circus and back.

Poetry

• John Donne penned a famous "romantic" poem called simply "The Flea"
• Grandpa Tucker wrote about Northern Fleas
• Emo contemplates if he should start a flea circus
• A flea poem was written as part of the BBC's "Get Writing " programme.
• T Savino wrote the following poem to advertise a flea product.

• A Poem from Amoret Brandt's Focus on Fleas presentation at the Natural History Museum

• And the following famous flea poem is by my favourite poet Anon.